The Conqueror Series

Warriors 9

  In the palace of Kanju in the North, Nabel was still in the cell when she began to hear men in the palace screaming. She stood up and held the iron window and peeping through it she saw a strange lady leading the army of slave women from the site across the sea. She wondered the whereabout of Gizza. Was Gizza dead? She thought aloud. She needed to apologise to Gizza and fight against men with her but seeing this strange woman doing justice in the palace with her mighty sword made Nabel to think that either Gizza was dead or no longer the leader of the crusade. Was Prince Davi dead too? Could it be that Gizza died at the site while trying to fight Davi and the army of Kanju? She waited patiently with a lot of questions in her head. The cells in the palace which was filled with women and men began to emanate noises and screams. The cells filled with men were broken in by the angry slave women and butchered. Nabel was in her cell as she watched the blood of the men in the nearby cells pouring out. She watched the blood and wondered if her anger rested on men generally or on Prince Davi particularly. Whatever it was she felt she knew that she hated men.

The king of Kanju was not ready to escape from his own palace. He remained inside his throne room with over hundred able bodied soldiers guarding him. Zina broke into the female cells in the palace and began to release them. Female servants took weapons and started killing male servants. Two servant lovers were about to escape from the palace but was stopped by Zina whose face was covered by the blood of her enemies. The girl servant held her boyfriend's hand in fear. In her face was written fear, fear of loosing her servant boyfriend but Zina was not going to be merciful. She walked slowly to the two and held the girl's hand saying, "all men must die"

"Not him. Aby is a good man. He has always been so good to me. Please don't kill him. Please" begged the female servant. Zina looked at the boy servant and saw fear in his face but what irritated her the most was the fact that the servant boy was not ready to let go of the hand of his servant girlfriend. Zina stabbed the female servant in the heart and stabbed the boy too on the neck with both hands, all at once. The two servant lovers fell and died. This act was being witnessed by some slave women who were standing on the tower of the palace after killing the male servants there. Zina looked up to see them staring at her. One of the slave women on the tower gnashed her teeth and uttered in anger, "she killed our supreme leader Gizza and now she is killing the female servants. She is a hypocrite! This statement drew the attention of some of the female slaves who were not in support of what Zina did to Gizza and there was chaos. This chaos resulted to a bloody fight amongst the slave women. The slave women supporting Zina and the one against the killing of the female servant started a war amongst themselves right there in the palace. The king of Kanju took advantage of this and escaped with his followers, riding West to alert the Western kings and rulers of the West about the latest development which stated that "the women are now fighting themselves"

Zina was confused. She realised that she had lost her spiritual powers too as she looked up and saw the same strange boy Gizza killed in the palace of Arika staring at her with a smile on his face. Zina immediately understood what had happened. The boy had put confusion in their midst by using her. She fell on her kneels and cried out in pain.

Nabel was now free from her cell but she was shocked to see the slave women killing each other and the woman leading them on her kneels in tears.

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At the sea, before the site, Prince Davi and few of the surviving soldiers of Kanju had swum out of the sea and were now resting on the shores. Prince Davi was seated beside a rock. One of the soldiers approached him and said, "my Prince, your mother received her own on the neck but Gizza on the stomach. Gizza is likely to survive it but your mother...

"My mother what? Listen, I need the two women alive. Do everything you can to save them. They can't die" said Davi without looking at the soldier.

"My prince, I will understand if you are worried about your mother but Gizza... Gizza is the enemy every soldier in this world wants to kill" said the soldier.

"Thank the gods I'm not a soldier. So save the both of them" said Prince Davi. The soldier bowed and left to continue attending to the Queen of Arika and Gizza whom they found unconscious when they swam out of the sea.